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Cross-Culture Product Hybridization in Pre-Communist China (1912-1949)
Get PDFStudies on cross-culture marketing often focus on either localization or globalization strategies. Based on data from pre-communist China (1912-1949),product hybridization—defined as a process or strategy that generates symbols, designs, behaviors, and cultural identities that blend local and global elements—emerges as a popular intermediate strategy worthy of further inquiry. After examining the mechanisms and processes underlying this strategy, a schema for classifying product hybridization strategies is developed and illustrated
Effects of Social Isolation on Heart Rate Variabilty
Get PDFThe present study looked at the interaction and effects of social isolation onheart rate variability (HRV). Participants in this study includedundergraduate (N=20) students from St. Johns University and the Collegeof Saint Benedict. This study included an online survey that measuredneuroticism as well as an online program participants played calledCyberBall. After participants took the neuroticism survey they wereattached to a BioPac machine using electrodes that monitored their heartrate variability while they played two rounds CyberBall. Heart ratevariability was collected for a total of twenty minutes. We hypothesized thatsocial isolation would decrease heart rate variability
Modeling Solitary Waves in the Earth’s Magnetosphere
Get PDFSolitary waves occur in many mediums, both on Earth and in space. These waves are a single isolated wavelength or half wavelength of a full wave. This research focuses on observing these waves at the Earth’s magnetopause, the region around Earth where the Earth’s magnetic field controls the motion of particles. This research applies a Gaussian function to model solitary waves in Mathematica, utilizing electric potential data gathered by NASA’s Polar spacecraft. The code is able to loop through the data set, finding fit parameters for the function for each wave. It can also loop through the entirety of our data set, 183 separate waves observed by Polar. With more refinement, we hope to obtain confidence levels for the value being given in the fit, which will help us make the model more accurate. This research is ongoing, with the ultimate goal being to fit the large number of events we have and to obtain a distribution of wave sizes and other parameters in order to allow us to infer what geometric shape the solitary wave may have had
Tom Gjelten: A Presentation on the Politics of Immigration in America
No full textLegendary NPR correspondent and author Tom Gjelten presents his book on immigration politics. This book covers what America has become in the last 50 years. It is a celebration of the value and variety in American culture
Higher Education and the Transformation of American Society: A 50-year Perspective
No full textA book signing with Dr. Hrabowski will follow his presentation
A Cross-Cultural Approach to Environmental and Peace Work: Wangari Maathai’s Use of Mottainai in Kenya
Get PDFProtecting the environment and nurturing peace are global concerns requiring scholarly attention across and within cultures. This essay proposes that cross-cultural exchange serves as an invaluable approach to the goal of communicating about creating a healthy environment and everyday peace. We examine how Wangari Maathai interpreted the meaning and purpose of Mottainai as a global call to save the environment. Mottainai is an ancient Japanese concept that means “Don’t waste! What a waste!” Of interest to us is establishing Maathai’s motivation to employ the concept of Mottainai as informed by her lived experiences in Kenya. The relevance of Mottainai to Maathai’s environmental work offers lessons for global concerns about peace. There is an opportunity to grow peace work by extending its focus to commonalities between various forms of local knowledge, beliefs, values and skills
Review of Flourishing: Why we need religion in a globalized world by Miroslav Volf.
Get PDFDr. Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale University and the Founding Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. His works have spanned several subfields within the discipline of theology -- from a book, published in 1988, on Karl Marx’s concept of labor and its theological value, to a book published in 1996, which is a theological exploration of identity, otherness, and reconciliation, to a book published in 2012 on Jews, Christian, and Muslims in dialogue. In Volf’s Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World, he attempts to shed light on how religions and globalization have historically interacted, and he argues for ways of constructing and construing their relationships
The Role of the Traditional Somali Model in Peacemaking
Get PDFIn this paper I explore the mediation and reconciliation efforts of traditional Somali elders. I also discuss why traditional elders have been effective peacemakers in Northern Somali (Somaliland) but not in Somalia. I argue that four factors comprising an insider-partial mediation approach in Somaliand helps to explain why it was effective there. In conclusion, this paper shows that the traditional Somali approach of peacemaking is a viable and effective approach to mitigating conflicts in Somalia
Exile, Memory, and Welcoming the Stranger
No full textPresentation by artist Laurie Wohlwith musical accompaniment by Voices of Sepharad and guests, an ensemble of musicians from the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions